But why did it die out? Was it the quality of games?
No way! Dreamcast had the most awesome games!
Take, for instance, The Typing
of the Dead:
"Type or die." A game obviously targeted at American tech employees.
Most gamers know the game House of the Dead, where you use a pistol
controller to shoot at zombies on your screen. Typing of the Dead
was a Dreamcast game where you used a keyboard and typed out words floating over
the zombies.
If you typed in the words right, the zombies exploded.
Nothing truly captures the horror of a zombie attack like "Yolk."
This game actually got great reviews! It taught people how to type fast!
AND how to kill zombies the way real men do in traditional African cultures.
To its credit, the game was a lot more fun of a way to learn typing, than
other educational "games." For instance, Typing of the Dead
blows away Fun Brain's Spell Check:
If you start to play this game,
it will inexplicably pop up ads, teaching kids valuable lessons
on how to how to spam all their friends by involving them in pyramid schemes.
We need more games targeting children that involve them in criminal activities.
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